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EXETER GUILDHALL

... Fryer contended that defendant's doings in this affair did not constitute an offence within the meaning of the act against palmistry and fortune telling thereby or imposing upon the subject. After a joke or two between bar and bench,creating a laugh, the ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1862
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4052 | Page: 9 | Tags: none

Tllli 41.-VGAZi.NE3,

... 13 re- viewed, and a very clear account is given of his rather eccentaic theories on the of what was formerly ‘called ‘ palmistry” Lut is new dignified with the phrase above quoted. The science is “ very humor.tsly recommended to persons about to Hirt ...

Published: Monday 07 August 1865
Newspaper: Western Morning News
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4004 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

SOUTHMOLTON

... enjoined his audience to be kind, the result which would be seen the good looks of their children. An allusion to phrenology, palmistry, and a dissertation on the different classes of noses, from the snub to the aquiline, shewing that the whole body was influenced ...

Published: Thursday 22 February 1866
Newspaper: North Devon Journal
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 738 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

DISTRICT NEWS

... found him Mr. Plummer's White Hart Inn, Lymc-street, and took him in custody for practising the occult art or science ct palmistry. The prisoner turned out to bo an old: acquaintancs of Sergt. Gunn, who proved a previous conviction against him in November ...

Published: Friday 15 March 1867
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 4719 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

... indignity put upon the illustrious colonial iv getting him down to Exeier and then denying biin tho gratification of doing tho palmistry. ;Uie Gazette says that he would have been saved only the authorities did not kuow where to find him. Tho Archbishop's official ...

Published: Tuesday 01 October 1867
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 3441 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BRIGHAM YOUNG'S TACTICS 1

... as a complex deed of trust or partnership. Launcelot Gobbo was startled by the matrimonial prospect which his studies in palmistry revealed to him. Go to, here's a simple line of life. Here's a small trifle of wives. Alas, fifteen wives is nothing eleven ...

Published: Friday 17 September 1869
Newspaper: Tavistock Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5076 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

Somerset

... f to deal with him under the Vagrant Act, which enacts that every person using any subtle craft*, means, or device,by palmistry, or otherwise.to deceive and impose upon any of Her Majesty's subjects, shall be deemed a rogue and a vagabond.— A witness ...

Published: Friday 08 April 1870
Newspaper: Exeter and Plymouth Gazette
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 358 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

GENERAL NEWS

... woman named Marshall was on Wednesday charged at the Henley police. court with using subtle craft, means, or devices, by palmistry, or otherwise, to deceive or impose upon her Majesty's subjects The day before a girl called at the Henley police-office ...

Published: Wednesday 07 December 1870
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 5446 | Page: 7 | Tags: News 

GARDEN OPERATIONS

... than ever convinced that the science he possesses b is one of the - exact ones. Desbarolles is the first pro- s fessor of palmistry, which has never been admitted by - scientifc men as worthy of a moment's consideration. They r leave it to the gipsies and ...

Published: Wednesday 07 June 1871
Newspaper: Exeter Flying Post
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 10948 | Page: 3 | Tags: News 

The Western Times MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1873. The Paris election yesterday is the event of greatest European ..

... respected contemporary for having been caught nodding over our country contributor's budge -, and thus have misled him to the palmistry of the paragraph. The following is rough recital of the original story. member of the legal profession heard a story at ...

Published: Monday 28 April 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 1400 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

... respected contemporary for having been caught nodding ovsr our country contributors budget una thus nave misled him the palmistry the paragraph. The following a rough recital the original story. member of tha legal profession heard a story Manchester ...

Published: Tuesday 29 April 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 2838 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE MAGAZINES FOR OCTOBER

... Saint Pauls has much clever writing, with touch hero and there hard criticism of the hard world it is. Here is another paper Palmistry, the art of divining tellui fortunes by the lines tne nand. Any student Koins iv for the whole circle the sciences may get ...

Published: Tuesday 14 October 1873
Newspaper: Western Times
County: Devon, England
Type: Article | Words: 686 | Page: 7 | Tags: none